"Something in your golden gateway has impelled me to speak to you of the foreign relations of our republic. Happily it is not a message of anxiety, but one of satisfaction and rejoicing."
"If our people are ever to decide upon war, they will choose to decide according to our own national conscience at the time and in the constitutional manner without advance commitment, or the advice or..."
"We do not challenge the utility of the League of Nations to others; we wish it more power in every righteous exercise of its functions; but it is clearly not for us as presented in the Versailles cove..."
"We avoided controversy and recorded accomplishment."
"History has yet to record another like expression of trust by one nation in the fairness of another."
"Settlement may enforce hardships and denials and economies which hinder the easy way to restoration, but it maintains the foundations of financial honor which must be everlasting."
"It is a pity we have the mischief makers who are ever adding to the burdens of distrust, but we do have them and in 1921 they were busy in our land and in the East, exciting suspicion and ill feeling."
"The world was weary of war burdens and armament cost, and an honest and authoritative confession would reveal that fact so that men might act in concert to relieve the situation and make for widesprea..."
"In the gloom and grief of the world, the Conference table lighted the torch of understanding and pointed the simplest way to peace."
"The friendly relationship and the soul of national honor are infinitely more important to peace than a written form of their expression."
"Our feeling toward the Mexican people is one of entire and very cordial friendliness, and we have deeply regretted the necessity for the continued suspension of diplomatic relations."
"We would give as freely as we ask. Such assurance is in the interest of permanent friendly relations."